the world's top whistle blower breathes a sigh of relief after a fall carette who gave him shelter in the ecuadorian embassy secures another presidential term. u.n. investigators accusing both the syrian government and the opposition of committing war crimes for britain pushes for arms supplies to the rebels. and twitter trouble in france as the country demands and uses identities of real what's being seen as a threat to free speech and a step towards cross borders censorship.

accosting live from our studios in moscow this is r.t.m. carried off well first let me bring you some breaking news a russian child has been killed by an american foster mother according to a tweet posted by russia's child rights on woodsmen he says investigators think that three year old maxime was beaten to death women allegedly made the boy take strong psychoactive medication for a long time. claims maxime's death happened on the twenty first of january but moscow was not informed by u.s. or florida's. ban on adopting russian children by american citizens took effect the law was named after. only died of use after a car by his foster parents in hot temperatures with many more details on this for me get them. when the victory the world's most

famous whistle blower can rest easier dorian preston secured his job for another term according to exit polls during the sun g.'s under the country's diplomatic shield in london decisions made by rafael rio more insight on this now from artie's and he said no way rafael correia is paid to win and has already declared victory in this first round according to some analysts he was marked to win a third term with this platform seen in ecuador and across latin america standing up to the u.s. and friends but the opposition is more or less seen as pro-u.s. here's adrian south bootsy the founder of the second republic project. public opinion is that all of latin america is growing very weary with u.s. intervention and you could intervention throughout the continent which explains why i. don't believe you can argentina brazil. are having government

keeping very much for of arms from the united states and latin america this very strong popular movement trying to move away from the united states well craig has benefitted from this sentiment by pledging to continue down this road now gray a pretty much securing a third term as ecuador's president will be a headache for washington but is very good news for whistleblower julian assange and he was of course granted political asylum by ecuador the only country to really stand up for him a small country which doesn't have much leverage managed to do to so far make it impossible for a song to be extradited to sweden for questioning over sex assault charges even with pressure from the u.s. and the u.k. correia has said this that there can't be a problem due to asylum it's neo colonialism a silence has been holed up at the ecuadorian embassy in london fearing he will be arrested if he steps outside and so far hasn't been granted safe passage while

under house arrest the sons premiered an interview show right here on r.t. and one of the guests was nonetheless correia take a listen to some encouraging words from the ecuadorian president to assad's who took out a solution is really a pleasure to meet you julian least in this way and. to the club of the persecuted . and that seems to have been the beginning of a beautiful friendship between us songs and ecuador where the full interview which his son john the took with iran found there is available at r.t. dot com as well as all the other side's office talk show which aired here on r.t. . if. you do the.

u.n. investigators are accusing both the syrian government and the opposition of committing war crimes including killings and torture in the country's civil war the panel is also warning against foreign weapons supplies and what it called an increasingly radicalized conflict that has britain fights to lift an e.u. arms embargo so that weapons can be funneled to the rebels let's now talk to neil clark a journalist and contributor to guardians of britain's guardian newspaper i should say has been closely following this syrian stand off thanks for joining us here on r.t. or britain's prince harry so already been rebuffed by other e.u. nations like germany and sweden which say more arms simply means more deaths why is the u.k. seemingly so keen to help the rebels militarily well that we've got to understand

that the u.k. is hell bent on violent regime change in syria we thought they never completely outside of this wanted a sort of peaceful transition in syria or peaceful dialogue between the government and opposition they were against all the way along you know we had a fire raging in syria and the british government wants us corporal mclean you don't want to call water over the flames and at this very moment we've got breaks in the syrian opposition we've got a faction actually wants to talk directly with president assad and the syrian government and what william hague doing he's going all out to try to be the arms embargo and i think that she's criminally irresponsible if the un investigators say the rebels have become more radicalized by foreign fighters from other arab nations and that they also commit atrocities alongside government forces so if that's the case why is britain still pushing for military aid for the opposition. well i think britain as i said before you know is hell bent on getting a sad and a half party out of syria they the last thing they would he want is a democratic syria because if it were you know free elections tomorrow in syria

with all parties standing by to do quite well if not we're not right majority would actually form a coalition with somebody else and the west doesn't want that so the west wants a sort of violent regime change by backing opposition and as the report clearly stated the outside act international actors like britain who've been helping to sort of fuel be conflict and prevent a peaceful solution to it and the government and rebels are both accused of committing war crimes as we've been saying that the the un human rights chief is calling on just president as said to be taken to the international criminal court one apparently one sided approach well this is very inconsistent isn't any war crimes have been committed by both sides and that's prosecute both sides that's the everyone who has been committing war crimes but i'm afraid that this shows political bias because all we're getting again is talk about indicting present a sad and leading syrian official is all wrong if there's evidence of war crimes against rebel mark i was let there be indicted and i hear what's happening here

kerry is this is a political move to kind of put more pressure on the mask because if we think back to one thousand nine hundred eighty a bombing of yugoslavia in the height of that conflict there was the dark issued against president last week or crimes a drink the nato bombing of libya there was an indictment against kind of without people war crimes and i'm just worried that this is part of this trend that you know to increase pressure on damascus we'll have an indictment on the syrian government well you know if people are committing war crimes they should outs of them but it has to be applied equally interesting the another appeal there has also called on the security council to take action against president assad which would possibly include military intervention just how likely is that is the call would it be pursued do you think under the guise of human rights protection for example well we got the government in the u.k. is a neo con government. and they would very much i think prefer that option i think that it will be made as neo-con and strongly support the iraq war going to be a compaction america. became lieberman but i'm not sure president obama wanted to

go. and he's pretty clear that he doesn't want to do that and so we're in the sort of impasse now we've got in this year opposition large section of the actually want to negotiate directly with damascus and curry because this problem could be sorted out very quickly if countries like the countries that have been stoking it up actually said to the rebels look go and negotiate directly with present syrian government come to some kind of compromise we've got a new constitution in syria democratic elections that's the way to solve this democratically but the you know the people what will got blood on their hands of the people out on the outside who really don't want a peaceful solution they want violence making change they want president assad had a plate. and they're the ones really who should change their policies ok we'll leave it there journalist new york clark a contributor for the guardian newspaper thank you for that thank you very much very. well to other news now protesters in egypt restive city of port side they're threatening more violence after mass rallies bought

a work stoppage there several thousand activists marched to demand justice for the deaths of dozens killed in the city's riots last month and so this is show of anger against a president mercy that has rid the country in recent months artie's bill true reports now from egypt. the ultra hardcore football fans who call these acts of radiance how upset they will escalate in the next few days if their demands a not match the story about three thousand people come to the streets of poor saeed basically showing anger against the president and the authorities they reportedly surrounded the governor's building they managed to actually get government employees on the sign they stopped the harbor from working and even went to the telecom buildings this however was not just the ultras the hardcore football fans who were involved other sectors got in there were student teachers who staged protests after the death of a young student over the past few weeks in clashes in port sorry i'm as i said

government protests during dinner as well the so what we're seeing really is taking quite a step towards independence from the country expressing that this is stretching across different parts of the city what they're saying the reason that they're angry is on twenty six january there was this court verdict the sold twenty one site citizen sentenced to death after this deadly football massacre that happened last year in february and basically pushed i.e. to people are saying this is unfair in addition they're saying that the anger all of the security forces so the way that they reacted to protest by poor following this very contentious decision saw dozens die they said that this committee forces attacked the people of course we live ammunition to look at the anger here is also got to do with the reaction of the security forces off the protests following this very contentious verdicts as i said they will escalate in the next few days people are predicting violence and they want to continue to break the custody which is on

the city. continue these activists have been forcibly bringing the city to a standstill for the next week. and what's acceptable in one country isn't ok another is not getting twitter in trouble france has ordered the micro-blogging site to reveal the personal data of users who posted what were deemed to be hate messages or pay a hefty fine for twitter is an american firm operating on the u.s. laws ati's were a philosopher examines the implications of a move which could open the censorship floodgates. two democracies stumbling over the concept of freedom the french court has called on twitter to help censor hate speech on the website in france because it violates its laws the tweeter is an american company and the american constitution sets no limits to freedom of expression given the work the french work as weak wired to do that the question is how can the french enforce this judge those decision when the union

of jewish students of france took the issue to paris court and told her they wanted to stop a wave of anti semitic messages posted under the hashtag on both a good jew it was the third most popular tagged subject of the time the number of insulting jokes reached thousands but these people all of whom had at least once been attacked for being a jew also wanted to punish those responsible people at home. we don't want to prosecute or treat these people but just to draw the attention of the northeast to such cases to let them decide whether or not it's a case of racism. or when a special twitter agreed to remove offensive content but the authors were anonymous and punished so french jews brought the popular micro-blogging site to trial the court decision in january asked the company to divulge the names of people behind the tweets the fight against racism has nothing to do with the violation of freedom of expression it is an american concept and it cannot be applied in france in the

way it is understood in the us we just wanted this part of our life to obey this country's legislation which prohibits public racism but not everyone agrees if freedom is limited they say it's no longer freedom jeremy of jewish origins himself is one of them he says greater liberty shouldn't bring more restrictions but a different approach to controlling the internet you have twitter a private company that may be acting as a job. deciding what is legal and what is not and removing content which is censorship so i agree that this content should be combated but i don't agree that the private companies such as twitter should implement private or censorship of free speech online this is a major risk today this story has sparked broda discussion of the violations of freedom and privacy in france there are at least one hundred ninety pan-european laws allowing us or just access to internet users personal information caption web

storage is and surveillance. china tomorrow although we are concerned that france the us britain and some other democratic governors are helping to produce internet surveillance technologies for china syria or libya egypt. will if they allow the governments of these countries to use it against their people is there any guarantee that france will not use it against its own people one day. but this tweet to dispute has gone far beyond the borders of the u.s. and france and any greenland reached the fact subsequent cases skeptics warn that france may be happy to let personal freedom slide the birthday party of liberty equality for eternity france's most famous motto and three peers the country has been resting on since the french revolution and today they face new challenges with racism been one of them and it has many fear and whether both intolerance itself

and the fight against it may see those hard fought principles swept aside. from paris. china is on the verge of taking a trading top spot from the u.s. it's explore what's an import studies a surging along with a number of math whisky it's will be time to take the race to the next level as we report shortly. roll call it evidence russian scientists discover the first fragments of the meet your crashed in the urals last friday which caused havoc and left hundreds injured that's ahead break.

the news today volunteers once again flared up. these are the images called world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day.

talk about here without. russian scientists claim they found the first fragments from the cosmic encounter which saw a meteor or crash in central russia on friday causing shock and devastation is for a deputy for miles around injuring more than twelve hundred people you know pissing off is in the rules for r.t. . scientists have confirms that the tiny pieces that be found at lake sheba grew which is around one hundred kilometers or sixty miles away from chile and are parts of that exact meteor which sparked apocalyptic fears in several russian regions on friday they say that the pieces are just around one centimeter in size or less that's like a baby was just shows how massive the blast was since it's estimated that the media awaits from ten to forty tons. of the blast was equal to around thirty bombs dropped on hiroshima and the media right exploded while it was still high in the

skies above no radiation was involved nevertheless it still damaged buildings and shattered windows the consequences of that can still be seen all across the city like on the sports arena behind me over twelve hundred people were injured including over two hundred children mostly from these pieces of glass flying around . where it's already started a genuine need to write russian urals in russia groups of people and combing through the snow and ice in search of chunks that could be worth thousands of dollars per gram which far outstrips the price of gold along that. also there today britain's top military academy is on the fire down south and test has renamed the whole region dedicated to first world war heroes is now in tribute to the king of bahrain tell you why r.t. dot com. and radioactive reality japanese research has painted a bleak picture of how the fukushima nuclear disaster has affected the health of

almost half the children living in the area. the competition between the u.s. and china to be the world's foreign trade supremely has tightened in recent years with the two titans now neck and neck the latest figures show washington faces a worthy trading rival for the first time since the second world war college account takes a look at how america's education system might affect its leading status. the u.s. is still home to amazing king of asians into knowledge but will it be able to maintain its experts are looking to schools for the answer to that question internationally fifteen year old in the u.s.

are ranked twenty fifth among peers from thirty four countries in math while china tops the chart harvard published a study titled globally challenge are u.s. students ready to compete it looks at how the results in math at school can affect the nation's economic development they estimated that the results students in the u.s. showed today can cost the country seventy five trillion dollars over the next eighty years seventy five trillion dollars i spoke with professor eric from stanford university one of the authors of this study a leader in economic analysis of educational issues here's what he said this is a tremendous impact you can measure it. on terms of g.d.p. and it would in present value terms be over five times the current g.d.p. of the united states your free could improve our schools over the next two

directors i asked professor henitiuk what's the main reason behind the poor results in math and u.s. schools is it that the world's wealthiest nation doesn't spend enough on education he says money is not the reason this looks like it's largely an issue of the quality of the teachers in the classroom now there are so many issues about the curriculum and what's taught in the textbooks and so forth but what we've found is that the biggest influence on student achievement in our schools is the teacher in the classroom china now doubles down on science and technology at schools although technological advancement there varies from region to region but the trend is there and it's strong judging by the initiatives put forward by president obama in his state of the union speech washington recognizes the urgency. well reward schools to develop new partnerships with colleges and employers and create classes that focus on science technology engineering and math the skills today's employers are looking

for to fill the jobs that are there right now and will be there in the future for decades the u.s. has been a magnet for scientific genius from all over the world immigrants helped start prominent american tech companies like google yahoo intel and instagram the u.s. can still count on a steady inflow of talent for more on the globe no doubt about that but experts say it does not alleviate the urgency of growing talent at home considering how much poor math results can cost the country in the future in washington i'm going to check out a quick look at some other world news now in pakistan militants disguised as policemen have attacked the office of a top politician and killing five people said day after protests across pakistan demanded more security for the shia minority following another deadly bombing which left only eighty people dead the demonstrators wave flags chanted and hold up signs calling for attacks against shia muslims to stop. police in turkey have clashed

with crowds of demonstrators in front of a prison complex in the outskirts of istanbul and activists gathered there to protest a long lasting trial for almost three hundred people accused of plotting a political who allegedly linked to a terrorist network a critics see it as a tit for tat move against the turkish army openly showing its discontent with a list of islamic leaning pulses. now per fume that creates his often get their frequent side is from flowers or emotions perhaps but how about a code inspired by a long range missile what's available in gaza named after a weapon used by hamas against israel in last year's conflict honestly no home what's behind the idea whether israel smells a rat. the french have the eiffel tower the brits big ben and now the gazans the only symbol of that made up

a perfume bottle with the same type of victory and the perfumes always make a person remember good things after we won the last war on gaza the rocket m seventy five was celebrated we are immortalized in it by naming this perfume after it and sales have reportedly rocketed excuse the pun for five years i haven't bought israeli products the moment a palestinian product comes on the market i don't hesitate to buy it but this is something special this is a symbol of our victory. in november as israel gaza war the m seventy five long range missile reached as far as television the first time in twenty years the city came under threat which is why its frequency is far from sweet to those living here i hope it doesn't smell like like a bomb it's funny it's nonsense. the funny side of the female dog story it's a good idea i wish all the. films it's funny

it's better to love than or should now i don't think it's funny to name a perfume after the rocket. actually i think it's sad but i think on both sides they're kind of warmongers unfortunately i mean this is the way the conflict is going on and on on thanks to tel aviv is hitting back not to be outdone the government to celebrating its own latest technology find the iron dome anti-missile defense system that's intercepted eighty seven percent of all rockets fired from gaza and so this is the israeli symbolic response a state meddle with three interceptors fired from the over the tel aviv skyline with the state emblem and the biblical message i was shelled the city to save it. most of the medals have been bought by the company rafael that's behind the anti missile shield as a thank you to its employees we are at the wharf symbols we are the war of perceptions we are at the war of media even here the media play the role of by

diminishing the aggressiveness of the israeli response during the war because scenes and televisions are today very very vividly part of any war as post-war symbolism cements each side's perceived triumph over the other it's only a matter of time before this decades long conflict erupts yet again into missiles in the skies policy r.t. television. well up next we'll have ellen his panel of guests look at what's ahead for the catholic church the pope that leaves office stay with us.